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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

JFC, the demographic trends are much worse and have a longer basis than I had understood. this piece includes an interwoven and powerful visual narrative… well done.

“When he was in medical school in Pakistan, he was taught that a typical adult man weighs 70 kilograms — about 154 pounds. Today, the average man in the United States weighs about 200 pounds. Women on average weigh about 171 pounds — roughly what men weighed in the 1960s.

In 1990, 11.6 percent of adults in America were obese. Now, that figure is 41.9, according to the CDC.”

America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon - The Washington Post

https://apple.news/ARmTXefoJTciLTMaIwUY0Hg

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

bkardell@toot.cafe wrote:

Did you know @igalia is a cooperative? If you've ever wondered about how that works, my colleague Valerie Young gave a great talk at FOSSY (and organized the breakout session!) which breaks it all down. Great talk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du7fC8VCbXg

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon - The Washington Post

https://apple.news/ARmTXefoJTciLTMaIwUY0Hg

“When he was in medical school in Pakistan, he was taught that a typical adult man weighs 70 kilograms — about 154 pounds. Today, the average man in the United States weighs about 200 pounds. Women on average weigh about 171 pounds — roughly what men weighed in the 1960s.

In 1990, 11.6 percent of adults in America were obese. Now, that figure is 41.9, according to the CDC.”

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

You're telling me a cis teen made this chapel?

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

3. Sick (2022). Fun little slasher movie! A lot of the letterboxd reviews said this could've used Wes Craven's touch, but I could imagine a version of this movie that went in more of a Serial Mom direction.

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• Poster for the movie Sick (2023). On a blood red background, a black silhouette of someone in a hoodie, holding a kitchen knife and wearing a covid mask, both in contrasting white. Just below where the knife stops, the house that appears in the movie, with its outer edges blurred by black dripping splatters reminiscent of blood.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Yes, Trump Made Those Awful Remarks About Vets, John Kelly Says | HuffPost Latest News

“A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘It doesn’t look good for me.’”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-kelly-trump-veterans-mark-milley_n_651b50efe4b0c3956253909c?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2023-10-03&utm_term=us-morning-email&email_hash=e53a498401cb2b94b619cd67507a5278f2bca570

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

FBI interviewed individuals who accuse Amy Coney Barrett faith group of abuse | Amy Coney Barrett | The Guardian

“Barrett’s membership in the group was not raised in her confirmation hearing for the high court, but media outlets reported on her role as a handmaid and that PoP had erased all mentions and photos of Barrett from its website. The Guardian also reported that Barrett and her husband, Jesse Barrett, had lived together in the home of a key PoP founder, Kevin Ranaghan, before they were married.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/03/fbi-people-of-praise-amy-coney-barrett-faith-group-abuse-allegations?utm_term=651c024f7bc71aabe68b296df11d3112&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email

Reblogged by rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips"):

nnethercote@mas.to ("Nicholas Nethercote") wrote:

I have rewritten the Build Configuration chapter of the Rust Performance Book.

https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/build-configuration.html

It's now a much better guide to all the ways you can change the performance characteristics of your Rust program without changing its source code. These characteristics include runtime speed, memory use, binary size, and compile times.

Big improvements to your Rust program's performance are possible with simple changes. Try these things out!

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

mythologybot@botsin.space ("MythologyBot") wrote:

F232.5
Fairies have hairy bodies.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Zé do Caixão acrylics appreciation post

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• Still from This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse. A close-up shot of Zé's hands holding a deck of playing cards. He's wearing a set of long glossy nail extensions
• Screen from This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse. In a torchlit room, Zé stands watching a bound man placed under a hanging weight. Zé's face is obscured by the weight but his hand and its nail extensions are clearly visible against his black robe.

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

alienghic@octodon.social ("Diane") wrote:

It looks like google is manipulating the entered search queries to make them more profitable for google.

"Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all. It’s not possible for you to opt out of the substitution."

From https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

2. This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967). Zé do Caixão kills people for not being as edgy as he is, but he also wears a set of huge acrylic nails wherever he goes, so it's impossible to say whether he's bad or not

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• Movie poster for Esta Noite Encarnarei no teu Cadáver. A giant bloody eye stares down from the moon at a silhouette that looks like Coffin Joe with his arms outstretched. Flames rise up below him.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

ned@mstdn.ca ("Ned Yeung") wrote:

I know this one to the bones. #WorkingClass

"Do you work well under pressure?"

"Yes, I do."

"Great, because we fabricate urgency through poor management, uneven distribution of duties and an inflated sense of self for upper management."

Attachments:

• Do you work well under pressure? Yes, I do. Great, because we fabricate urgency through poor management, uneven distribution of duties and an inflated sense of self for upper management. (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt (".DS_Store") wrote:

getting fired from apple for printing out little pieces of paper that say ".DS_Store" and leaving them everywhere

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

DataDrivenMD@fedified.com ("Dr. Jorge Caballero") wrote:

I recognize that I'm probably 24 hours late to this, but this article is a brutally honest, fact-based demolition of Walter Isaacson's hagiography of Elon Musk

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

PSA: If it is safe and appropriate for you, please make your Fediverse profile searchable.
Visit Preferences/Public Profile/Privacy and Reach scroll down a bit to SEARCH.

Why this PSA? Our member-owned co-op instance (see https://cosocial.info) just turned on Mastodon 4.2 search and wow, it’s good. Also, really fast.

Thanks to the Mastodon team for the strong work!

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• [SEARCH

 Control how you want to be found. Do you want people to find you by what you've publicly posted about? Do you want people outside Mastodon to find your profile when searching the web? Please mind that total exclusion from all search engines cannot be guaranteed for public information.
 
 Include public posts in search results
 
 Your public posts may appear in search results on Mastodon. People who have interacted with your posts may be able to search them regardless.
 Include profile page in search engines
 
 Your profile page may appear in search results on Google, Bing, and others.][6] ([remote][7])

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

stressed about upcoming travel and the fact that underplanned trips are harder in groups. are guidebooks having a resurgence? I feel like I could use a guidebook

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

Thank you google, but when I search for "filler text in hebrew" I'm not looking for a translation of the phrase "filler text" into Hebrew, thank you very much.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

We've started only subscribing to one streaming service at a time in our house; a month of Netflix, a month of Hulu, a month of Max, etc., cancelling all other services during that month.

I kinda wonder if this will become common enough that these services start offering weekly or daily pricing.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Have you been burned by this? Join @ahl and me today on Oxide and Friends at 5p Pacific to commiserate!

https://discord.gg/9yG4Sj9e?event=1158537517952413807

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

If Mastodon was a startup, the search privacy setting would be default on, and all existing users would get a popup with "Yes" and "Yes later".

https://mastodon.social/deck/@seldo@alpaca.gold/111161585086231098

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

BTW

do not let #UPenn brag about #KatalinKarikó

when was the last time you saw a male ADJUNCT ASSISTANT professor win a #NobelPrize?

denying her tenure & demoting her is how universities commonly commit #WageTheft by withholding :

— hundreds of thousands in pay equity

— tens of thousands in comprehensive health care

— tens of thousands in retirement / pension money

— tens of thousands of dollars in sick day, vacation & sabbatical equity

#UPenn owes Karikó MILLIONS for her work

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

#Kotlin might be one of my favorite languages.

… But after spending *days* debugging JVM memory issues inside of k8s containers, I'm starting to just think of the JVM as a liability.

OK, it's been that for a while now, I guess. The point has just been recently refreshed in my mind. 🤪

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Number of days since not setting TCP_NODELAY was the problem: 0

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@protonmail When this popped up for me and I saw it was enabled by default (a theme with Chrome "features" recently), it pushed me to ditch Chrome on all my computers. (again).

Thankfully alternatives have gotten a bit less bad than the last time I tried them out.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Can't Find My Way Home by Alison Krauss on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/Vgf1rQAPzDb

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

It was obvious from the outset that predictive policing was a scam (not to mention a vehicle for accelerating overpolicing), but it's really valuable to have this careful reporting of just bad it is:

https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

One of the funny things about ActivityPub is that we originally had a charter to develop a social API, with an option to make a social federation protocol.

The ActivityPub federation protocol has been very successful. The entire API is only implemented in a few projects, which I think is a mistake, but I hope to see improve over time.

Some people think the parts of the API not needed for federation drag down the spec, without realising that the protocol wouldn't exist without the API.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

young raptor??

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• 1c135653de301b13.jpeg (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

compoundchem@mstdn.social ("Compound Interest") wrote:

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to the development of mRNA vaccines – many people’s tip for the chemistry prize on Wednesday!

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• Image of Nobel Prize winners Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman (remote)